-----Original Message----- From: Sarah Newman [mailto:srn@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: sâmbătă, 21 septembrie 2019 20:41 To: Liviu.Petcu@xxxxxxx Cc: 'John Stoffel' <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RAID 10 with 2 failed drives On 9/21/19 2:19 AM, Liviu Petcu wrote: > Yes. Only one of the 2 disks reported by mdadm as failed, is broken. I > almost finished making images of all the discs, and for the second "failed" > disc ddrescue reported error-free copying. I intend to use the images to > recreate the array. I haven't done this before, but I hope I can handle > it... If by recreate you mean run mdadm --create, you really shouldn't start with that - it's easy to get wrong. You can almost certainly use mdadm --assemble --force per https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_Recovery Yes, I'll do that and all other attempts, with disk images as read only attached loop devices. Thank you. Liviu
